Netherlands: a prominent euthanasia case ahead?
Dutch Prince Johan Friso, injured in an avalanche last week, is in a coma and may never regain consciousness, doctors treating him in Austria say. The Netherlands were the first…
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In the UK, female gendercide is a rampant practice
One of Britain’s oldest abortion clinics is facing a police investigation after staff were caught falsifying paperwork and a doctor admitted that an abortion he was offering was tantamount to…
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UK: “Anti-Discrimination laws” consistently used to discriminate against Christians.
Trevor Phillips, the highly controversial head of the equally controversial Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has ignited public controversy by comparing Christians who do not believe that homosexuals should…
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Promoting “traditional values of humankind” at the UN
In Geneva, the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council is currently discussing its “Preliminary Study on promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values…
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Abortion Safer than Childbirth?
A widely cited study by Elizabeth Raymond and David Grimes published in the leading journal Obstetrics and Gynecology found that women were 14 times more likely to die during or…
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Austria’s failure to protect human rights activists against pro-abortionist hooligans
The following is taken from Vatican Insider: The office of the European Regional Director of Human Life International, Johannes Bucher, was attacked recently after a pro-life March took place in…
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Canadian Supreme Court Rules Against Exemption in Religious Freedom Case
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Feb. 17 that Quebec’s controversial Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) program does not violate the religious freedom of Catholic parents who sought to…
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EU Commissioner Reding answers disingenuously on funding of gay lobbyism
The European Commission’s strange practice of funding 70% of the budget of ILGA-Europe, a homosexualist lobby notorious for its links to groups seeking to promote pedophilia, is increasingly coming under…
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Codoms are a fantasy this week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
We all know it as Fat Tuesday, Mardis Gras, or perhpas even Shrove Tuesday but in Brazil the Tuesday before Lent is the end of Carnaval, which began last Friday,…
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Ireland Abortion Laws Being Challenged
A NY Times article’s lead today reads: “Abortion is back on the agenda in Ireland after a European Court of Human Rights ruling last year found the state in violation…
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WECARE- New abortion-research initiative
Flooded by statistics on the benefits of abortion published by the Guttmacher Institute (a research arm of Planned Parenthood), it could seem as if it was the only authoritative abortion-research…
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Contraceptive Revolution Hurt Women
National Review Online has an article titled “The Pill is Not Good for Women” by By Erika Bachiochi & Catherine R. Pakaluk. The article criticizes the way the sexual revolution…
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Seizing America’s Demographic Advantage
America has a brighter future than other countries — because it has a larger population. Susan Yoshihara writes on America’s demographic exceptionalism in an op ed in Roll Call (an…
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Obama Administration Overreaching, Says Constitutional Law Expert
Great USA Today article by a Notre Dame Law School professor on how the Obama Administration is overreaching through its birth control mandate. Must read: The burdens on religious freedom…
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Queer logic: why ILGA-Europe levies no membership fees
In a recent series of posts, we have shed some light on the strange fact that the European Commission is maintaining, at the expense of taxpayers, a fake “non-governmental organization”…
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Faith Leaders Testify in Solidarity at Congressional Hearing on Contraception Mandate Violating Religious Freedom
C-FAM staff attended Congress’s committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing this morning titled “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion…
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The Power and the Glory. Catholic Church in Mexico Instructs Catholics on Voting
The Catholic Church in Mexico City has recently issued a letter to the faithful with guidelines for the approaching July presidential elections. The guidelines instruct Catholics not to vote for…
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European Court of Human Rights: Critics of Homosexuality don’t enjoy freedom of opinion
In Sweden, critics of homosexuality risk being sent to jail. And the European Court of Human Rights, demonstrating once again its complete and utter failure to protect the fundamental rights…
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The Contraception Mandate Fix: Fact vs Fiction
If you read the emails and tweets coming from abortion-rights members of congress and pro-abortion feminist groups you have probably heard that Senator Blunts amendment will prevent women from obtaining…
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Human Rights Abuses in China Subject of Congressional Hearing as Obama Welcomes China’s Vice President to White House
Yesterday Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) chairman of the U.S. China Commission presided at a hearing entitled “The Case and Treatment of Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng” with Co-Chairman U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown…
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Birth-Control Mandate: Unconstitutional and Illegal
Today’s Wall Street Journal Opinion pages have a legal analysis by Rivkin and Whelan of how Obama’s Birth-Control Mandate would fare in federal court. Well worth the read. Here is…
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As China goes geriatric, we have the advantage
Susan Yoshihara puts a twist on a top news story: YOSHIHARA: As China goes geriatric, we have the advantage www.washingtontimes.com Washington is all abuzz about China’s heir apparent, Vice…
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Fear of demographic deficit leads to abortion restrictions being tightend in Russia
Given the demographic crisis that Russia is experiencing, the latest move by the Russian government to further limit the cases in which abortion is available on demand in Russia is…
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The Freedom of the Church Impaired at the European Court of Human Rights
The ECLJ calls for referral to the Grand Chamber of the case Sindicatul Pastorul cel bun v. Romania. On January 31st 2012, the third section of the European Court of…
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NRLC: Obama Scam Paves Way for Abortion Mandate
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) released a statement on Friday saying the Obama contraception compromise is a scam that could pave the way for abortion coverage in all…
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